The fractured light cast across the ceiling

In this cage of persecution deafening and demeaning

I read Hamsun then Wilde like pornography

To shut out the screaming

Addicted to nothing, emptiness my everything

Emptiness my everything

Pull the trigger - pull the trigger

Feed addiction - feed me nothing

Pull the trigger - pull the trigger

You wanna call this insincere?

I hear you loud and clear, you want an effigy to burn... [2x]

Teeter on the edge of reason

Calculating the pea gargantuan

Oh Kafka! Oh Kafka! Keep me busy

So I won't feel the gnawing - emptiness my everything

Emptiness my everything

Pull the trigger - pull the trigger

Feed addiction - feed me nothing

Pull the trigger to cut a figure

Of a freakish photograph

I hear you loud and clear: you want an effigy to burn... [2x]

"Self-satisfaction will be punished"

Shackles on humanity

Imprisoned by the manufactured cage of routine

And all the tomes stacked under my bed

Will haunt the hunger dreams that gnaw my sanity

Devour words but never fill the void oh oh

Full of thoughts and starved of insight oh oh

If you see the light, if you see the light

It will only be parody

Now that my eyes are truly open

To the state and its dastardly deeds

Camus and La Rochelle meet my needs

Form the blinders to blot out reality

And suffer in protest of a world cold and bleak

Emptiness my everything

Here's the trigger - here's the trigger

Feed the addiction - I want for nothing

Here's the trigger - here's the trigger

You want to call this insincere?

I saw it plain and clear, you want an effigy to burn

I volunteer myself, an effigy to burn

Reality abhors a happy ending...